Exploding nova alert

Posted: June 11, 2024 by oldbrew in Astronomy, predictions
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A Nova Will Explode This Summer (Probably)


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“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime event,” says Rebekah Hounsell of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Bring it on!

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  1. Joe Public says:
    June 11, 2024 at 12:38 pm

    So not Jo then! 😀

  2. Phoenix44 says:
    June 13, 2024 at 7:28 am

    They don’t say how far away it is, but presumably this happened some years ago!

  3. oldbrew says:
    June 13, 2024 at 10:39 am

    NASA says: T Coronae Borealis, dubbed the “Blaze Star” and known to astronomers simply as “T CrB,” is a binary system nestled in the Northern Crown some 3,000 light-years from Earth. 

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    “Recurrent novae are unpredictable and contrarian,” said Dr. Koji Mukai, a fellow astrophysics researcher at NASA Goddard. “When you think there can’t possibly be a reason they follow a certain set pattern, they do – and as soon as you start to rely on them repeating the same pattern, they deviate from it completely. We’ll see how T CrB behaves.”

    https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/marshall/nasa-global-astronomers-await-rare-nova-explosion/

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